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To: freeus who wrote (2495)	4/25/1999 11:13:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

Arizona is taking some very active steps in the right direction with its drug treatment vs. imprisonment approach. While outright legalization would be preferable, Arizona has found that the cost of putting drug abusers into rehab, as opposed to jail, is 1/2 what it would be. Pretty soon (as the abusers continue to abuse, and the #s don't change radically), they'll discover what we've known - that legalization makes everybody happier. It will reduce the prison population, reduce the cost to taxpayers, and they'll still have the same % of abusers. Now, if the # of abusers does change radically, and declines...well, I won't fight a program that works (at some level). But I have my doubts.

To: freeus who wrote (2495)	4/26/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Daniel W. Koehler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

Freeus Amen! Amen! Amen! I just had lunch with Sheldon Richman, who is the editor of the Freeman, that noble conservative magazine that was started by Albert Jay Nock, author of "Our Enemy, the State" and "Mr. Jefferson" which is not about Speling's eponymous dry cleaner. Anyway, Sheldon is the author of a great book, "Separating School and State" and his new book about the IRS, "Your Money or Your Life", which I have not read. Title reminds me of the old Jack Benny schtick Thug: "Ok, you - Your money or your life?" Jack B.: (contemplating this) THug: "C'mon buddy, your money or your life?" Jack B.: "I'm thinking it OVER! Anyhow, I met Sheldon at a Future of Freedom conference in D.C. in 1996 and now find out that he has moved to LIttle Rock and edits the Freeman online from here, deep behind in enemy lines in Clintonia. Plus, I come back from lunch and find AOL at 160 and Dell at 45!! Excelsior! (onward and upward). Ciao, Daniel